brickyard

[ brik-yahrd ]

/ ˈbrɪkˌyɑrd /

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noun

a place where bricks are made, stored, or sold.

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Origin of brickyard

An Americanism dating back to 1725–35; brick + yard²

Words nearby brickyard

bricks shy of a load, bricktop, brick veneer, brickwork, bricky, brickyard, bricolage, bricole, BRICs, bridal, Bridalveil

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How to use brickyard in a sentence

A later division crept in among the "dovetailers" themselves when a brickyard was opened.
Two Little Savages|Ernest Thompson Seton
She was already whistling for the crossing above Kattersmith's brickyard when we arrived, moving in force.
Back Home|Irvin S. Cobb
He had seen Ike's face when the messenger had come for him at the brickyard, and the memory of it was like a knife at his heart.
The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories|Paul Laurence Dunbar
The tops of the trees are cut into wood and used at the brickyard.
Report of the Hoosac Tunnel and Troy and Greenfield Railroad, by the Joint Standing Committee of 1866.|Tappan Wentworth

Not immortal Caesar dead and turned to clay could have looked more claylike, for Jimmy looked like a whole brickyard.
Mixed Faces|Roy Norton

British Dictionary definitions for brickyard

brickyard

/ (ˈbrɪkˌjɑːd) /

noun

a place in which bricks are made, stored, or sold

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